Australian Art Gifts

Wild visitors

Are We Alone?

People have always looked out to the night sky longing for some sign or signal to answer that ancient question.

Yet the answer is all around us, right here on the planet. Leaping, loping and wriggling, purring and grunting or chirping, our fellow animals make us feel fully human – and comfort us for that knowledge.

Anyone who has lived with an animal companion has learned to recognise that intelligence is not limited to us humans. Personality is not unique to h.Sapiens Sapiens. Respect and affection can be mutual between our species and another.

This is by way of explaining the new Category 'Wilflife' being introduced today in this blog. Some of its stories will be indulgent mementoes of various animals – domesticated and wild - who have shared our life beside the tropical rainforest.